Dr Hrishikesh Rajesh Terdalkar has joined Language Technologies Research Center (LTRC) as Assistant Professor. 

Dr. Hrishikesh was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the LIRIS Research Lab, University of Lyon 1 hosted by Prof. Angela Bonifati and Prof. Andrea Mauri. He completed his PhD from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur under the supervision of Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya.  

His research lies in the intersection of Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, and Graph Databases. His current research includes benchmarking, evaluation, explainability, and hallucination mitigation in LLMs for Indian languages. His broader interests include Databases, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Data Mining, and Software.

Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=k9aGwEgAAAAJ&hl=en

August 2026